Wardrobe Week 7 to be continued

This week we looked at how to carry out the prologue to our play 'The Wardrobe'. We all came up with some pretty good ideas. I particularly liked the idea of having that ghost energy effect, I think that will be something to thrill the audience in a good way. I think it would be a good idea, to end the play the way it began, with all the entrances, but the beginning having 2014 first and going back in time, and the ending have it in reverse order and have everyone end up back in the wardrobe as spirits around the living.

We also looked at costumes, as for our scene, we liked the idea of trying on the mistress' dresses, so I think hopefully that will add something new to the scene. Karen found a really good dress for Rae's character Anne, which is darker than mine and Paige's dresses. The idea is to present her in something that could symbolize that she has the plague.

We where asked to draw pictures of the significance of the wardrobe meant to us. I drew a picture of a glass window with a white and red rose as this is what sprang to mind. I also drew a lamppost which represented the Narnia scene, and I drew a picture of what I thought represented the plague. I also drew a red cross, as this is what I thought about after I drew the plague as people were quarantined in the house for forty days if it was thought you had the plague, and anyone else that could be in contact with the plague or lives in the same house would also be trapped. Then the blood painted cross would be painted on the door to show that this process was happening.  

I had decided to have a couple of choices for my costume as the one that I really liked the zip was busted. The second one I liked also had a problem with the back. We decided it didn't matter that the zip was busted because it actually added the the reality of why i could be wearing the dress, because although we think we are messing around and playing in them, the audience could also think it's related to our jobs, for example I could give the impression that I am wearing the dress so Paige could do alterations or mend the back.